it is an action verb, which justifies the use of have in simple past as a substitution of present perfective in American English Please explain why this might be so. I see no relationship between the two uses. The sentence under consideration

Hi Sitifan Whe get means understand, is it acceptable in American English to say "I've gotten it"? I'd say it's possible, but also that it's unlikely you'd hear anybody use it much. I'd say the use of

There is also a difference here between British and American usage. In American English there might be very little difference; I think you would hear both with approximately the same meaning. In British English, there is a difference, however:

I agree with all the responses to your question. I think the answer, in this specific case, should be simple past, for the reasons others have stated. But you introduced another related issue as an example, and that is: I have eaten. I just ate.

"I wondered whether you could help me?", Simple past, completed action. This is not present tense, but I suppose the "past time" could be one second ago. I don't use this. "I had wondered whether you could help

There is a difference in sentence position, it seems. At least in American English, "lately" does not seem natural between the subject and the verb, whereas "recently" sounds fine there. For example: I've recently been

When do you guys use the present perfect! (americans!)? I had asked a similar question before and I got many diffrent answers! One was like: So, we can say that generally we use the present perfect to talk about experiences, changes over time,

Thank you Yankee for your detailed answer, but I'm still hopelessly confused about when to use the present perfect and when to use the simple past. You brought up an interesting point about the differences between American English and British

Hi, does the simple past tense of "go" imply that someone is back now? If not, then the first should be good... #1 Oh... I can't find Sally. I wonder where she is. Where did she go? #2 Oh... I can't find Sally. I wonder where she is. Where has she

Kooyeen wrote: Hi, which verb tenses can be used with "until recently"? I thought only the simple past or the past continuous could be used, but I've also seen some perfect tenses... Is there any difference? American English, as always: He worked